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The black-run District of Columbia government has just agreed to pay $1.6 million to people who sued backed by the ACLU over being arrested for rioting in the January 20, 2017 riots protesting the election of Donald Trump.
This is probably collusive, like Consent Decrees and Jacob Frey s $27 million settlement with the Floyd Family in Minneapolis. It s not Frey s money, or the District Government s, either, it s the taxpayers money, and they want to lose these lawsuits, if it suits their political goals.
NPR quotes a guy from the ACLU, cheering this on: The contrast between the over-policing of constitutionally protected speech on Inauguration Day 2017 and the under-policing of a violent invasion of the U.S. Capitol earlier this year starkly demonstrates law enforcement s institutional biases, Scott Michelman, legal director of the D.C. ACLU, wrote in a news release. A
The last year has seen the former capital of the Confederacy make some of its largest changes since Lee surrendered in Appomattox 156 years ago.
A massive sign honoring Appomattox Virginia where on April 9, 1865, Confederate Generals surrendered to the North ending the U.S. Civil War. (Courthouse News photo / Brad Kutner)
APPOMATTOX, Va. (CN) When you enter the county of Appomattox a giant sign welcomes you with a message: “Where our nation reunited.” It’s a message many argue looks good in giant letters but fails to accurately represent those who were oppressed at the hands of the losing side of the American Civil War which ended over 150 years ago this month. While the Confederacy might have surrendered in Appomattox, its legacy has long been ingrained in every part of Virginia.
He recently took the mic during a wedding reception at his posh resort to praise himself and excoriate President Biden
Trump did not, of course, invent white supremacy, and not all of his supporters are racists. But as president he certainly encouraged the movement with his inflammatory rhetoric. When neo-Nazis marched carrying tiki torches at the 2017 Unite the Right rally, chanting, “Jews will not replace us,” he not only refused to condemn them but insisted there were “some very fine people on both sides.” At the September 2020 presidential debate, he told the far-right and misogynist Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by.” The group took his words as a rallying cry and emblazoned it on their merchandise.
The American Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday unveiled a campaign focused on ending systemic racism in the U.S. through advocating for economic and overall equality for people of color.